iPad VoiceOver basic gesture table

The table below describes the most frequently used gestures for
navigating screen content using VoiceOver.

Gesture

Motion

Function

Explore.

Drag one finger around the screen.

Apple also refers to this as the “Touch” gesture.
Voiceover reads everything your finger passes over. The last item your
finger touches becomes the
Current Item, and this will become the current VoiceOver focus.

Next
Item.

Single
Finger Flick Right.

Reads
the next Screen item.

Previous
Item.

Single
Finger Flick Left.

Reads
the previous Screen item.

Activate

Single
Finger Double Tap,

or
a split-tap, where you

touch
and hold with one finger, then tap with second finger.

Activates
selected application, or item.

Pause
or Resume.

Two
Finger Single Tap.

Pauses
Voiceover. The item Voiceover began reading last becomes the Current
Item. Restarts Voiceover from where it paused.

Starting
and Stopping.

Two
Finger Double Tap.

Answer
or end call.

Pause
or resume playback, podcasts.

Stop
or Start dictation.

Take
Picture when in Camera app.

Read
From Top Down.

Two
Finger Flick Up.

Causes
Voiceover to begin reading from the top of the screen just below the
Status Bar.

Read
to Bottom.

Two
Finger Flick Down.

Causes
Voiceover to read from the Current Item to the bottom of the Dock.

Allows
you to set magnification level. Use three finger slide or two finger
stretch to set new desired magnification level.

Screen
Curtain Toggle.

Three
Finger Triple Tap.

(Quadruple
if Zoom on).

Toggles
the display on and off. (Curtain on or off).

Voiceover
Help.

Four
Finger Double Tap.

Turns
Voiceover gesture help or practice on.

Rotor.

Rotating
two fingers on the screen as if you were turning an actual dial.

Single
Finger Flick Up or Single Finger Flick down allows you to choose the
desired Rota function.

You
can alter the rotor setting to changes context specific options, e.g.
changes the way VoiceOver moves through a document based on a setting
you choose, or changes the speech rate, or choose edit menu.

Back
gesture.

Two
finger scrub.

Activates
back button, if back button is available.

The next table below provides an explanation of some of the other areas of the iPad screen and items the screen.

Item Type

Description

Status Bar.

The
status bar appears at the top of the display. It is where you will find
important pieces of information about the current condition of your iOS
device. Examples may include how many bars of cellular signal strength
you have, how strong is your wireless signal, whether Bluetooth is on,
the current time, and how much battery you have left. The Status Bar
cannot become the current Item, but the icons within it can.

Dock.

The
Dock is an area at the bottom of the screen that holds icons for the
things you use most. That way no matter which page of the home screen
you are on they are always available.

Icons.

Icons
are small graphic images which vaguely represent the application or
function performed when you activate them.

Folders.

Folders
can contain groups of related icons, just like a physical file folder
contains related papers.

Picker Item.

Think of the Picker as a wheel with different symbols attached to its outside circumference, a bit like
a slot machine wheel, the wheel can rotate freely and when is comes to a standstill you can see what symbol,
option or image is infront of you by viewing the wheel through a small window.
Once the Picker has focus you can increment or decrement the displayed
values by a single finger flick up or down. The flick does not have to
take place on the item. Anywhere in the display will do. Voiceover
indicates a Picker item by ending its announcement with the word
"Adjustable."

Extras

Description

Access Control Centre

Displays Control Centre Window by activating Assistive Touch
There are a few ways to turn on AssistiveTouch:
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch, then turn on AssistiveTouch.
Tell Siri "Turn on AssistiveTouch."
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut and turn on AssistiveTouch.

Describe camera image (VoiceOver Image Recognition)

VoiceOver can now describe images. Ensure you have activated VoiceOver.
VoiceOver describe images to you, such as telling you if a photo features a tree, a dog or four smiling faces.
It can also read aloud text in an image - whether it's a snapshot of a receipt or a magazine article -
even if it hasn't been annotated. And in the Photos app, you can touch to explore the facial expressions of people
in your photos. Just tap the image with three fingers to have VoiceOver describe what's there.

Custom Gestures/p>

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch, then Create New Gesture.
Example: Then record two very quick swipes upward - one on the right side of the screen, one in the middle.
Save the gesture, and name it something like "CloseApps"
Then go back one screen, and make the Accessibility Shortcut (triple click home) AssistiveTouch.
Now, when you want to clear out ALL of your recently used apps, simply double click the home button to open the
multitask bar thing, then triple click home to bring up AssistiveTouch. Pick "CloseApps", then just keep tapping
your screen to quickly close your apps, two at a time.

The
Inactive Zones.

There
are two inactive areas of the display.
One is at the top above the Status Bar, and one is at the bottom. The
one at
the bottom extends to the left and right of the Home Button, and for a
narrow
space above it. There is no tactile way to detect these inactive areas,
but you
need to be aware of them, because if you perform one of the voiceover
control
gestures discussed above, they will not work correctly if one of your
fingers
is in these zones.

Note,
if Keyboard becomes split.

Turn
off Voiceover, press and hold finger on
hide keyboard, a pop up window appears allowing you to select join or
split,
this can also be achieved with the scrub gesture.

Search Section

If you are using a laptop, then to search for text on any currently displayed page press Control and F, then enter
the required search text in the displayed search box. Any text found in the current page will be highlighted, you can use the
up and down symbols displayed within the search box to search forward or backwards for occurrences of your search text.

If you are accessing this site via a smart phone or tablet, you will need to navigate to the 'More options'
button, usually towards the top right hand side of your screen, to access your device Search options for the
currently displayed page. Note that sometimes instead of the word 'Search' your device might display
'Find in page' as the option to select for searching the current page.

To search for text primarily in other pages of the Simplyinformed Website, enter text in the search box below.
To get back from the search results Press ALT and Left Arrow. Please note there may be a few initial links that take you
to other sites that match your site search string, these can of course be disregarded if you only want to be taken to
content on this site. Please note that the Search box is displayed as a table with one row and three columns, in other
there are three cells in the search table layout. Cell one is where you enter your search string and press enter, or move
to cell two to activate the Search Button. Move to cell three to find the clear search content button to clear out the
text in cell on, ready to enter a new search string. Use the Up and Down arrows to move through search table cells when using NVDA.
Once the Narrator has been taken to the search box press the enter key so that the screen reader switches into text input mode.